Free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Practice Questions

Sample CLF-C02 Practice Questions

Browse all 20 free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner practice questions below.

1. Which AWS Service can be used to mitigate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

   • AWS Shield
   • AWS Systems Manager
   • Amazon CloudWatch
   • AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

2. A silicon valley based healthcare startup stores anonymized patient health data on Amazon S3. The CTO further wants to ensure that any sensitive data on S3 is discovered and identified to prevent any sensitive data leaks. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?

   • AWS Secrets Manager
   • AWS Glue
   • Amazon Polly
   • Amazon Macie

3. Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no additional cost?

   • AWS Secrets Manager
   • AWS Shield Standard
   • AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)
   • AWS Shield Advanced

4. Which of the following is a recommended way to provide programmatic access to AWS resources?

   • Create a new IAM user and share the username and password
   • Use IAM user group to access AWS resources programmatically
   • Use AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) to access AWS resources programmatically
   • Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically

5. A company runs an application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The company wants to automate the traditional maintenance job of running timely assessments and checking for OS vulnerabilities. As a Cloud Practitioner, which service will you suggest for this use case?

   • AWS Shield
   • Amazon Inspector
   • Amazon Macie
   • Amazon GuardDuty

6. A startup is planning to migrate its on-premises infrastructure to AWS Cloud. Which of the following represents a key benefit of cloud computing that allows the company to automatically scale resources up or down based on demand?

   • Elasticity
   • Durability
   • Latency
   • Availability

7. Which AWS design principle recommends that you design systems to recover automatically from failure?

   • Design for failure
   • Monolithic architecture
   • Manual intervention
   • Single point of failure

8. A company is evaluating the cost benefits of moving to AWS Cloud. Which of the following accurately describes the concept of 'pay-as-you-go' pricing in AWS?

   • You pay only for the compute capacity, storage, and resources you actually use, with no upfront costs or long-term commitments
   • You must pay a fixed monthly subscription fee regardless of usage
   • You are required to make large upfront capital investments in hardware
   • You must sign a minimum 3-year contract to use AWS services

9. Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS Cloud that allows companies to replace large upfront capital expenses with low variable costs?

   • Trade capital expense for variable expense
   • Increase infrastructure capacity planning requirements
   • Maintain physical data center infrastructure
   • Invest in large-scale hardware purchases

10. A company wants to deploy its application across multiple geographic locations to serve users globally with low latency. Which AWS Cloud benefit does this scenario best represent?

    • Global reach in minutes
    • Economies of scale
    • Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
    • Increase speed and agility

11. A company wants to migrate its on-premises Oracle database to AWS Cloud. Which AWS service can help facilitate this database migration with minimal downtime?

    • AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
    • AWS DataSync
    • AWS Migration Hub
    • AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)

12. Which AWS service provides a fully managed NoSQL database service that supports both document and key-value data models?

    • Amazon RDS
    • Amazon DynamoDB
    • Amazon Redshift
    • Amazon ElastiCache

13. A developer needs to deploy a web application on AWS without managing the underlying infrastructure. Which AWS service would be the most appropriate?

    • Amazon EC2
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    • Amazon Lightsail
    • AWS CloudFormation

14. Which of the following are benefits of using AWS CloudFormation? (Select TWO)

    • Infrastructure as Code
    • Automated backups of EC2 instances
    • Consistent and repeatable deployments
    • Real-time monitoring of application performance
    • Automatic scaling of database read replicas

15. A company needs to store infrequently accessed data that must be retrieved within milliseconds when needed. Which S3 storage class would be the most cost-effective choice?

    • Amazon S3 Standard
    • Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
    • Amazon S3 Glacier
    • Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

16. A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data center to AWS. Which of the following represents a benefit of cloud economics that they can expect?

    • Trading capital expense (CapEx) for variable operational expense (OpEx)
    • Maintaining physical control of all hardware components
    • Increasing the time to market for new applications
    • Guaranteeing fixed monthly costs regardless of usage

17. Which design principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework recommends using automation to make architectural changes?

    • Implement changes through automation
    • Stop spending money on data center operations
    • Drive architectures using data
    • Test at production scale

18. A startup is evaluating the benefits of migrating to AWS Cloud. Which of the following describes the elasticity benefit of the AWS Cloud?

    • The ability to automatically scale computing resources up or down based on demand
    • The ability to deploy applications in multiple programming languages
    • The ability to physically access AWS data centers
    • The ability to use the same infrastructure indefinitely without upgrades

19. Which of the following is a benefit of the AWS global infrastructure?

    • The ability to deploy applications closer to end users for lower latency
    • Automatic replication of data across all AWS Regions
    • Free data transfer between all AWS Regions
    • Guaranteed single-digit millisecond latency worldwide

20. A company wants to understand the key differences between on-premises infrastructure and AWS Cloud. Which statement is true regarding the cloud computing model?

    • Cloud computing allows you to trade fixed expenses for variable expenses
    • Cloud computing requires larger upfront capital investments than on-premises
    • On-premises infrastructure provides better scalability than cloud
    • Cloud computing requires you to maintain physical servers